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Hawthorne Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Loose, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.244 / 51°14'38"N

Longitude: 0.5215 / 0°31'17"E

OS Eastings: 576093

OS Northings: 152444

OS Grid: TQ760524

Mapcode National: GBR PRF.STG

Mapcode Global: VHJMF.0Z2R

Plus Code: 9F326GVC+HJ

Entry Name: Hawthorne Cottage

Listing Date: 26 February 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1250520

English Heritage Legacy ID: 432911

ID on this website: 101250520

Location: Loose, Maidstone, Kent, ME15

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Loose

Built-Up Area: Maidstone

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


LOOSE ROAD
TQ 75 SE LOOSE
(West Side)
3/188 No. 592 (Hawthorne
Cottage)
GV II
Possibly inn, formerly house and shop, now house. Mid C16, with late
C16 or early C17 addition and early C18 alterations, restored in
1980's. Timber framed. Ground floor and right gable end chequered
red and grey brick, first floor rendered. Plain tile roof. Built at
right-angles to road. 3 timber-framed bays of a storeyed mid-C16
building, apparently unpartitioned on first floor. Left end bay
(furthest from road) partitioned from the other 2 on ground floor.
Fourth bay added to right in late C16 or early C17. Two storeys and
cellar. Coved rendered eaves cornice to right gable end. Hipped
roof. Central rear stack and slender rear stack towards right end.
Irregular fenestration of one central 2-light leaded casement. Rear
lean-to, brickwork integral with gable end. Blocked doorway towards
centre. Single-storey C19 addition at right-angles to left end of
front elevation, formerly shop, now domestic, with ribbed C20 door.
Interior: exposed framing, with evidence for crown-post roof to
3 left bays. Evidence for first-floor window and ground-floor bay
window to original right gable end. Ovolo-moulded cross-beam to
right end bay. Inserted rear central stack, probably C17. Stone
cellar, C16 or earlier, with blocked stone window to original right
gable end of house.


Listing NGR: TQ7609352444

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